With Democrats firmly in charge of the White House and Congress, Karl Rove's "permanent Republican majority" is a distant dream. We talk with a range of thinkers about restoring the unity and the relevance of the GOP. Also, an update on three unresolved US Senate races, and 90 years of commemorating America's war veterans.

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With Democrats firmly in charge of the White House and Congress, Karl Rove's "permanent Republican majority" is a distant dream. We talk with a range of thinkers about restoring the unity and the relevance of the GOP. Also, an update on unresolved US Senate races in Minnesota, Georgia and Alaska, and November 11, the day America celebrates its veterans of foreign wars.

Election Day was a week ago, but not all the races have been decided and not all the campaigning is over. In Georgia, incumbent Republican US Senator Saxby Chambliss faces a run-off with Democrat Jim Martin on December 2. Josh Kraushaar is a correspondent for Politico.com.

Republicans are pointing fingers at one another, but most agree on one thing: even if John McCain had not lost to Barack Obama, the GOP was in trouble. They were saddled with George Bush and the war in Iraq. They failed to control healthcare costs or monitor the economy. Now the party of Ronald Reagan has no consensus on leadership or a set or principles to hold its factions together. We ask a cross-section of Republican operatives and philosophers, what should happen next?

Only a single American veteran survives from World War I, the conflict that ended 90 years ago today, after eight million soldiers had lost their lives in four years of fighting. On the aircraft carrier Intrepid, now a museum in New York Harbor, President Bush described how this holiday got the name Veterans' Day. Michael Neiberg is Professor of History and Co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi

Guests:Michael Neiberg, Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi